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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Mar 5, 10     Comments Off
Bonaire, Red Beryl

Bonaire, Red Beryl

Good evening from Hotville!!  Man-o-man today was a warm one!!  With very little wind a blowing this place can get very uncomfortable quick!  Aimee and some of the other trainers went for a nice ocean swim today in-between training sessions to cool off and I hid in the air-co all day.  My dearest is training for a triathlon that she will compete in on the 28th, I will of course be helping her and taking photos, cool huh??  I finally got gas in the car but I heard that the strike is not over so I really filled it up!!
 
Here’s another Bonaire photo that when I saw it I thought, “dang that would make a great cover”  it was picture perfect!  This is a beautiful school of Mahogany Snappers hanging out in the safety of the gorgonian forest.  This was taken at a dive site called “Red Beryl” which is the 7th dive site past the salt mines, I highly recommend it!!  I have other great shots of this area still on their way to you and in one of the photos I found a tall gorgonian on top of the reef and all these fish were under this one single soft coral, it was truly beautiful!!  I again must thank Sal and Patty for taking me here, I kind of told them what I was looking for and they knew just the right spot, it’s great to have friends!  I did find out once again just how hard it was to shoot silver reflective fish as the flash can easily bounce off their shiny bodies so I kept back further than normal this time and for the most part it seemed to work.  I don’t think this was very deep because we were on the way back from the dive, I am guessing around 30 feet and as usual the Bonaire waters were just spectacular.  I’m having diving with-draws these past few days, I sure wish I was back there, the gang at Wannadive and my new friends made leaving very difficult. 
 
That’s about it, I smell pizza!!  Hope you all are well, thanks for all the notes, till tomorrow, Barry
 
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